Clothesline cleaner and pulley



Oct. 24, 193 9. OLSEN 2,177,115

' .CLOTHESLINE CLEANER AND PULLEY Filed June 22, 1938 Y Fly. 6

Ko/j'rn Olsen IN VENTOR BY M ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 24, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHESLINE CLEANER AND PULLEY Kolbjiirn Olsen, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application June 22, 1938, Serial No. 215,084

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in cleaning devices for clotheslines and particularly to an improved clothesline pulley carrying said cleaning apparatus.

An important object of my invention is to provide a cleaning device which may be handled and sold as part of the pulley.

A further object of my invention is to provide a cleaning device which is easily renewable and which is of simple and low cost construction. Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this'specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pulley containing the cleaning apparatus,

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same,

Figure 3 represents a plan view,

Figure 4 is a side view of the cleaning bushing,

Figure 5 is an end view of the same,

Figure 6 represents a side view of the holding clip, and,

' Figure '7 is an end View of the same.

In the drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral I B designates the onehalf of the pulley housing, and H is the other half as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. The said pulley housing is preferably made from sheet metal and is spot-welded at the edges l3, as shown in Figure 2. The pulley housing contains the pulley wheel [4 which is rotatable upon pivot I5, and at one end there is provided the usual supporting clevis I6. At one end of the pulley housing, where the rope ll enters, the housing is elongated and contains two slots, the lower or inner edges of which are marked 3 and 19, re-

spectively, in Fig. 1. In these slots, or cut-outs, are located the cleaning bushings 2G and 2i as shown in Fig. 2. These bushings 20 and 2! are split along one side 22 so that they may be slipped over the line I! from one side. Two spring clips Hand 24 are placed over the said cleaning bushings 20 and 2|, respectively, to insure a firm even pressure on the line. The spring clips 23 and 24 have small tabs 25 at each end to grip the felt bushings 20 and 2| and keep same from sliding with the line [1.

The operation of my invention is mostly obvious from the above description. After the line has been inserted in the pulley the felt bushings 20 and 2| are slipped over the line H in the slots i8 and I9 as indicated in Fig. 1. The bushings 20 l and 2| are preferably made from felt, but any other suitable cleaning material may be used. These bushings are put on one from each side with the slot 22 in opposite directions so as to insure the cleaning of the entire line circumference. l0 When the spring clips 23 and 24 are placed over the bushings 20 and 21 these are held firmly and can not move out of slots I 8 and I9. To insure cleaning of both ropes of a double clothesline it will be necessary to have two pulleys, one at each 16: end of the line. It is obvious that only one cleaning bushing in each pulley may also be used if desired, but this would not give as good cleaning as the presently shown arrangement, and the additional cost of two bushings is very slight. 20

It is to be understood that the form of my invention, herewith shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, without 25 departing from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

In a device of the character described the combination of a pulley; a pulley housing, said housing completely enclosing the pulley but being open and extending away from same on the end Where the clothesline enters and leaves, said hous- 35 ing having a slot transversely to and outside of the pulley and near the end where the clothesline enters the housing and extending along the direction of and in the path of said clothesline; a shaft journalling said pulley in the housing; a slit, cylindrical, fibrous bushing placed around the rope, in the slot in the housing, said bushing being of larger diameter than the width of the pulley and its length being approximately equal to the width of the slot in the housing, and a hairpin shaped spring clip placed transversely through said slot in the housing and over said fibrous bushing.

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